People: Thoughts & Afterthoughts

"A great many producers 30 or 40 years ago used to invest their own
money in their own shows. They all died broke," Composer Richard
Rodgers and Librettist Oscar Hammerstein 2d, co-producers of six
successive Broadway hits, including South Pacific, wrote in the New
York Times. "It is not our intention to die broke if we can help it ...
We believe that outside capital can and should be invited into the
theater . . ."

"Fiction is a clarifying agent," Journalist-Novelist John Mersey (The
Wall, A Bell for Adano) wrote in the...